This study is an investigation into the impact of entrepreneurship education in Ireland. It focuses on graduate entrepreneurship education (MBA) and endeavours to assess its impact on graduates’ entrepreneurial behaviour ...

This thesis aims at estimating empirically the impact of EU-ASEAN trade
liberalisation on food security in ASEAN with a specific focus on people who live
below the international poverty line. The contributions obtained ...

In the early hours of the morning of Saturday, 14th February 1981, a disastrous fire swept through an Irish discotheque called ‘The Stardust’ in the north Dublin suburb of Artane.
Forty-eight people were killed and one ...

This research is an investigation of the internal influences on firm growth in female owner-managed firms operating in Ireland. The research contributes by providing an understanding of how a range of internal characteristics ...

Economic activities are considered as embedded in the social structure by
many sociologists. Not very often though, is there a measurement of the
kinship network on business performance by economists themselves. It is
the ...

This thesis is primarily an exploratory study undertaken to evaluate
the role and application of management development in the context of
the small firm and its contribution to the improved performance and
success of ...

This thesis examines the roots of regulation in modern policymaking, with particular attention given to the evolution of financial regulation and corporate governance in Ireland. Through case study evidence of Anglo Irish ...

The purpose of this study is to gain an understanding of the role of the GRI Guidelines in corporate environmental disclosure practice. The study employs a theoretical framework, based on organisational legitimacy theory ...

Understanding how expatriates adjust to the various aspects of the host
environment has been a focal point of research within international human
resource management literature for several decades. Person-environment ...

This study examines the content of the psychological contract at its formation stage. Three individual antecedents were identified that were expected to influence these content dimensions (careerism, type of exchange ...

The Mid West is considerably underdeveloped relative to other Irish regions and international economies, largely due to the region’s low value added service sector and a leakage of highly skilled labour, including graduates ...

The financial crisis has highlighted the impact of human failure on a global scale. The financial crisis has illuminated the individual, organizational, institutional and societal impact of dysfunctional or dark side ...